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Related Party Transactions | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Related Party Transactions [Abstract] |
Related Party Transactions | Note 12. Related Party Transactions The following table summarizes our related party transactions for the periods indicated:
|  | For the Three Months Ended March 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Revenues – related parties: |  |  |  |  |  |
Unconsolidated affiliates |  | $ | 35.5 |  |  | $ | 5.9 |
Costs and expenses – related parties: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
EPCO and affiliates |  | $ | 235.7 |  |  | $ | 212.7 |
Unconsolidated affiliates |  |  | 56.6 |  |  |  | 31.3 |
Total |  | $ | 292.3 |  |  | $ | 244.0 |
The following table summarizes our related party accounts receivable and accounts payable balances at the dates indicated:
|  | March 31, |  |  | December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Accounts receivable - related parties: |  |  |  |  |  |
Unconsolidated affiliates |  | $ | 5.5 |  |  | $ | 6.8 |
Accounts payable - related parties: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
EPCO and affiliates |  | $ | 58.3 |  |  | $ | 116.3 |
Unconsolidated affiliates |  |  | 32.7 |  |  |  | 34.2 |
Total |  | $ | 91.0 |  |  | $ | 150.5 |
We believe that the terms and provisions of our related party agreements are fair to us; however, such agreements and transactions may not be as favorable to us as we could have obtained from unaffiliated third parties. Relationship with EPCO and Affiliates We have an extensive and ongoing relationship with EPCO and its privately held affiliates (including Enterprise GP, our general partner), which are not a part of our consolidated group of companies. At March 31, 2014, EPCO and its privately held affiliates (including Dan Duncan LLC and certain Duncan family trusts, the beneficiaries of which include the estate of Dan L. Duncan) beneficially owned the following limited partner interests in us:
Number of Units | Percentage of Total Units Outstanding
341,283,694 | 36.4%
We and Enterprise GP are both separate legal entities apart from each other and apart from EPCO and its other affiliates, with assets and liabilities that are also separate from those of EPCO and its other affiliates. EPCO and its privately held affiliates depend on the cash distributions they receive from us and other investments to fund their other activities and to meet their debt obligations. During the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, we paid EPCO and its privately held affiliates cash distributions totaling $214.2 million and $197.1 million, respectively. From time-to-time, EPCO and its privately held affiliates elect to reinvest a portion of the cash distributions they receive from us into the purchase of additional common units under our DRIP. See Note 10 for information regarding these reinvestments made during 2014. We have no employees. All of our operating functions and general and administrative support services are provided by employees of EPCO pursuant to the ASA or by other service providers. The following table presents our costs and expenses attributable to the ASA and other related party transactions with EPCO for the periods indicated:
|  | For the Three Months Ended March 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Operating costs and expenses |  | $ | 203.7 |  |  | $ | 181.1 |
General and administrative expenses |  |  | 32.0 |  |  |  | 31.6 |
Total costs and expenses |  | $ | 235.7 |  |  | $ | 212.7 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for related party transactions. Examples of related party transactions include transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners; and (d) affiliates. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39622-107864 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 3 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39603-107864 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39549-107864 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 04 -Paragraph b -Article 3A Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 235 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(k)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26873400&loc=d3e23780-122690 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 08 -Paragraph k -Article 4 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 6 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39691-107864 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 5 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39678-107864 + Details
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